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Covid-19

Community Health,Community Support

Covid-19

Washington County communities of color are being hit especially hard by the pandemic. The county is working with local community organizations and Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center to offer free COVID-19 testing for Pacific Islanders. The second testing will be this Thursday, July 9th. One more testing will take place on July 25th. More information […]
Census 2020

Community Support,Social Awareness

Census 2020

The census determines where billions of dollars of government funding will go, to programs like education and healthcare, to communities like ours for a decade to come. Our communities and organizations are depending on people to be counted in the Census for funding. In 2017 alone, $1.5 trillion of federal spending was allocated on the basis of […]
Arno Ine Community Church Roof Replacement

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Arno Ine Community Church Roof Replacement

When visiting RMI in October 2018, we were brought to Ine on Arno Atoll to see a church roof that locals were concerned might be unsafe due to visible sagging in the ridge. We did an observation by taking asbuilt measurements, photographing the structure, sketching connection details, and talking with local stakeholders and the history […]
Masterplanning for K-12 SDA School

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Masterplanning for K-12 SDA School

The Seventh Day Adventist School in Majuro has two campuses, the larger in Delap and the smaller in Laura. The school building in Laura is a decent structure however it has a number of challenges. For one it is small for the number of students so classrooms are shared between grades. There is a lack […]
Coconut Lumber Housing

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Coconut Lumber Housing

The Johnson’s are a multi-generation Marshallese family who lost their home to a fire some years ago. Their property is located within a stone’s throw to the Ocean and about 5 minutes to the SDA Laura campus. Considering the amount of time to secure the lease on the SDA project as well as additional funding […]
Census 2020 NOT USED

Community Support

Census 2020 NOT USED

While Social Distancing may keep us apart, let’s all come together and be heard on the 2020 Census. You can complete the 2020 Census by mail, online at my2020census.gov, or call ‪1-800-330-2020‬ to complete over the phone. The census determines where billions of dollars of government funding will go, to programs like education and healthcare, […]
PICO Directory

Community Support

PICO Directory

A Directory for the PI Community, a structured network between Businesses, NGOs, Local and Regional Government Entities, and our Communities, based on shared ownership among Pacific Islander Communities.
Then and Now: A Historical Photo Expo

Indigenous Cultures,Social Awareness

Then and Now: A Historical Photo Expo

David Anderson will be going back to Enewetak and Ujelang to reconnect with people he lived with, in the 1970'ies and take the same photos he took back then to document social changes as well as see how nature has reclaimed Ujelang since it's last human residents left.
Habitation Survey Project

Community Health,Education,Public Interest Design

Habitation Survey Project

The first phase utilizes drone technology and photogrammetry software to create orthomosaics of small island settlements. This phase includes training of local stakeholders to operate drone equipment and manage data flow to secure a safe path of data from original acquisition to central storage and cloud based mainland backup. The second survey implements on the […]
Jr. Ocean Ambassador Camp

Education,Social Awareness

Jr. Ocean Ambassador Camp

The Ocean and Beaches of the Marshall Islands have faced years of heavy external pollution, environmental neglect, and the full impact of global climate changes. Locally, the lack of education and awareness of waste management is causing a large part of the population to dispose of waste by simply dumping it into the Ocean. This […]
Food Security

Community Health,Community Support

Food Security

The Floating food forest is proposed to develop agricultural space within greenhouses that will float within the lagoon of the atoll. Slightly protected from heavy storms while impervious to the rise and fall of the seas or swells, it shall be designed for; High winds during storms Heat dissipation using passive automation for heat exhaust […]
Outrigger Tour

Education,Social Awareness

Outrigger Tour

We are preparing part two of the outrigger project. Please come back for more information later, and follow our facebook page as well.
Crossroads 2020

Community Health,Social Awareness

Crossroads 2020

Our world is at the most critical crossroads ever. Important decisions must be made immediately if there is any chance to save and preserve what will be left. There is no such thing as “local” anymore — ALL ACTIONS ARE GLOBAL. The world entered into this new epoch called the Anthropocene in the late 1930s when the […]
Box of Bikes

Community Support

Box of Bikes

The Living Islands Bicycle Program aims to address the need for affordable, sustainable transportation options in the Marshall Islands by facilitating a bicycle lending and distribution program complemented with legal and educational support from the community and political leadership. The program works to increase the availability of bicycles on the islands of the RMI through […]
Low-bandwidth Emergency Weather Information System

Community Support

Low-bandwidth Emergency Weather Information System

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Micronesian Immigration Integration

Social Awareness

Micronesian Immigration Integration

Living Islands is starting a new program that aims to strengthen the Micronesian community network(s) in the Pacific Northwest and to empower the Micronesian population living here. Through this program, Living Islands will advocate on behalf of the Pacific Northwest Micronesian population and act as a resource to help new Micronesian community members (Micronesian immigrants) […]
Relationship between cultural evolution and space

Community Health,Education,Indigenous Cultures,Public Interest Design

Relationship between cultural evolution and space

Analyzing the relationship between Marshallese cultural evolution and space: A study to develop culturally appropriate and resilient plans for sustainable land use practices and future resettlement schemes.
Environmental Education Initiative

Education

Environmental Education Initiative

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